[Samba] Our success story with samba4

[Lukasz Zalewski]

On 10/25/2010 07:45 AM, Daniel Müller wrote:
Hi Daniel,
> Hi,
> besides nsd it is possible to make dynamic update work with bind on centos
> 5.5.
I think the version of bind shipped with CentOS 5.5 is too old. See 
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Step_10_Configure_kerberos_DNS_dynamic_updates
You can, as wiki suggests, build one from source

Regards

Luk
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> Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im
> Auftrag von Lukasz Zalewski
> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 21:55
> An: Michael Wood
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; samba-technical
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Our success story with samba4
>
> On 22/10/2010 19:52, Michael Wood wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>> Hi Lukasz
>>
>> On 19 October 2010 11:12, Lukasz Zalewski<lukas at eecs.qmul.ac.uk>   wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> This message is a testament to the great work samba team has done, but
> its
>>> also an encouragement to those of you that still not sure if samba4 will
>>> work in your environment.
>>>
>>> This semester we have moved from samba 3.0.X DC to samba4 DC for
> students,
>>> and things are working great
>>> The move was predominantly driven by switching from Windows XP to Windows
> 7
>>> desktop platform (but also by a need for proper group policy).
>>>
>>> Our setup is quite simple and includes:
>>>
>>> One samba4 DC (running on centos 5.5 x64) with nsd dns backend
>> [...]
>>
>> Do you have dynamic DNS updates working with nsd?  Using Kerberos?
>>   From clients too or just with the samba_dnsupdate script?
> Nope, AFAIK nsd can't do ms style dynamic updates (its the one bundled
> with Centos 5.5). We decided to go for static dns (we have only one s4
> DC), which is composed of the bind config file generated by s4 provision
> (nsd can use bind config files, but TXT records have to be quoted for
> some reason) and all other records generated from database.
>>
>> How was it to set up compared to bind?
> Besides not setting up dynamic updates, quite easy (I think easier than
> bind). As mentioned earlier, it supports bind config syntax (but TXT
> records have to be quoted).
>>
>
> Regards
>
> Luk